8:40 – 10:00 Keynote & Workshop
Deepa Iyer, Strategic Advisor at Building Movement Project and Director of Solidarity Is, is joining us in conversation about her new workbook and her tool for mapping our social change roles. In our lives and as part of sustainability movements and organizations, many of us play different roles. And yet, we can often get lost and confused, or we are newcomers to ongoing efforts and don’t know where to start, or we are catalyzed into action in the midst of a crisis in our community. Her keynote and workshop will help us:
Understand the different roles that create equitable and enduring social change
Learn about how to identify our roles through what we value and our vision for the future
Identify the systems of power we are drawn to take action to change
Recognize that working for change can cause fatigue, and learn how to sustain your efforts
Discover how to build connection with our teams, organizations, networks, and/or movements
Reflect on our goals for social change
The Sustain Dane Summit is a day filled with education, inspiration, reflection, and connection! This year our theme is Building Our Social Change Ecosystem. Our community is filled with talented visionaries, guides, healers and more. What’s your role? All of these roles are welcome and necessary to work together to address climate change and create a sustainable future with well-being for all. At the Summit we will learn about and workshop our understanding of different roles that create equitable and enduring social change, the systems of power we are drawn to take action to change, how to sustain your efforts through times of fatigue and healing, and the network of connections we build together.
We’ll hear from speaker Deepa Iyer, writer, strategist, lawyer, and racial justice advocate for the keynote address and workshop session. Her new book, Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection will be available complementary to participants at the Summit.